is not only illogical, but completely devoid of any evidence in the record.

That's from a judge.

This is a dangerous time, and I ask all my colleagues to consider

whether these plain comments by this person

and by his own Trump administration colleagues should be given a blind eye, just overlooked, or whether, like the warnings of pardoning violent January 6th offenders,

their warnings to be heeded. There is an unfathomable difference between a seeming facade being constructed around this nominee here today

and what he has actually done and said in real life when left to his own devices.

Conduct shows character.

And if you look at history, you see the danger of security chiefs in authoritarian regimes

becoming the tools of political power.

The characteristics that they often show are that they are vengeful, that they are grandiose, that they are intemperate, that they are partisan and blindly loyal, and that they are servile, and won't say no.

I'm afraid that the history of this nominee's conduct raises those warnings.

And I yield my one second back. Senator Cornyn you said you'd like

to explain something I forget the point he made you can do that now if you want to

simply this senator in the collective all of those statements are taken out of grotesque context.

And anyone that thinks my 16 years of service is an exemplary on how I would proceed if confirmed as FBI,

is intentionally putting false information into the public ether and creating more public discourse.

The only thing that will matter if I'm confirmed as a director of the FBI is a de-weaponized,

depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution

and a singular standard of justice.

Before I call on Senator Karnan. of the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.

Before I call on Senator Karnan, I'd like to say that we've heard about the January 6th pardons.

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